We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

" European Court: Calling Mohammed A Pedophile Not Covered By Free Speech". Europe is just about gone thanks to their politicians that are willing to cut their own perople's throats. The Democrats here are willing to do the same. You can say any thing bad about Jesus but you better not say anything bad about the Islamic guy.

This is no accident. Long before caravans of young male Muslims began making their way into Europe the elite left began making it improper and illegal to say some things. You cannot say the truth about Muhammad but you can disparage Christianity with impunity. Now Islam uses these rules against us. The truth about Islam would make you retch but you cannot print the truth or say the truth. Imagine giving your 9 year old daughter to a 50 year old man to take as his wife. Imagine that same man cutting off your daughter's nose or killing your daughter because she failed to provide him with the sex he wanted and imagine that Sharia law allows him to do this and you have no recourse. Why isn't this front page news in Europe as these Muslim "immigrants" invade so that Europeans could be more informed of their future? Why isn't there a public discussion about the inevitable cultural changes Europe and their citizens can expect with this invasion? Why do the courts, who we would presume are made up of intelligent thinking men and women, place barriers to this discussion?

Some Arab Christian men became our neighbors when they immigrated to the U.S. to take medical specialties. They were born/raised in the Bethlehem/Nazareth area, graduated from the American University in Beirut and took their residencies at Aramco in Saudi Arabia. The stories they had about their time at the Aramco hospital shocked the most hardened war veterans among our friends.

It was not unusual for children as young as four years old to be brought in with a right hand chopped off for stealing bread. Or a woman barely alive from stoning, The sexual abuse was astonishing and usually not treated at the medical center unless the woman was in need of a Caesarean section or bleeding profusely. With multiple wives and dozens of children, little attention was paid to the health of those family members who were out of favor.

Why Europe would tolerate this type of mentality is beyond most civilized people.

I couldn't find an email for the admin, and this feels like an admin post :)

First of all, this site is an incredible resource, great work on bringing together so much great information from so many corners of the internet.

I've published a few articles with reasonable success - closing in on 30.000 readers soon - that I feel would fit with the spirit of this community. My main areas of interest are: the current state of feminism, dating in the era of #metoo, personal responsibility, etc.
Here are a few of the most recent:
Even if #metoo, we've got better things to do: https://www.sortalexout.com/writing/even-if-metoo
How to survive the age of fragility:
https://www.sortalexout.com/writing/theageoffragility
Why you should quit feminism:
https://www.sortalexout.com/writing/feminism-life-hack

It would be lovely if you could add my blog to the list of links.
https://www.sortalexout.com/

The administrative state always fills itself with authoritarian mediocrities that never feel responsible for the destruction of natural rights or individual liberty. The entire UN is an administrative state that needs to be put down as you would a rabid dog. Close the Mexican border to all trade and travel until Mexico turns the invaders back to their own countries.

Fake Bomber:
It's like this whole bomb drama was written by Seth MacFarlane.
What I'd like to know is when does a device become a bomb? I'm assuming some minimal amount of energy has to be released, at least enough to say, pop a balloon, or lift the lid off a shoe box. What is the threshold? As for energetic material? What does that mean ? Is it explosive under normal conditions, here on earth, or do you have to throw it in a furnace or be in Daeth Valley?
I don't know the answer; I'm asking.

D said...
Just ran across this statement from Wray
“As far as the devices themselves, it’s important to say, as is in the complaint, that even if the devices—and we’re still trying to determine whether or not they were functional, as they say, so we’re doing all kinds of analysis on that to make a definitive determination, but they did contain energetic material which, if subjected to the right combination of heat, or shock, or friction, could be dangerous to the public.”

There is parsing and then there is super parsing. This sounds like mega super parsing.
An "energetic material"? Not an explosive? Most materials contain some energy, not necessarily explosive.
"right combination of heat, or shock, or friction" well, if it is powdered sugar, and you disperse it in the air in just the right proportions, in a confined space, then hit it with an open flame, that would be the right conditions for it to explode. Under just the right conditions, you can get a really massive explosion. On the other hand, they have to be just the right conditions or nothing much happens.

"could be dangerous to the public." Not necessarily kill or maim the recipient but "dangerous to the public" (maybe) Expose someone to high concentrations of sugar and you might trigger a diabetic attack. Would that be a "danger to the public"?
This statement seems to me to confirm that they don't think the devices were any particular danger to anyone.

JH said.... re energetic material: I seem to recall reading that the devices contained powdered sugar. Powdered sugar can be highly explosive, for example in a sugar mill where it is finely dispersed in the air. Compacted into a plastic pipe, not so much. So would sugar be, legally, an explosive? And if the device cannot, by design, explode wouldn't it simply be an ID (improvised Device) rather than an IED (Improvised Explosive Device)?

tim said...
“they were not hoax bombs, they were IEDs.”
So is putting a roll of caps under a rock for cars to run over. It's an IED by any definition, It's just not a meaningful category. I think until we hear what he has to say, there is no way we can know. It's all in his intent, isn't it?

H said...
I would like to hear more about this "energetic material, capable of exploding when subjected to high pressure or temperatures."

JF said...
He legally got the materials to build his bomb because it wasn't a bomb. He used things like PVC pipe, a cheap digital clock, some hardware store wire, and one of many "energetic materials" that you can get at Safeway.

This is a Rorschach test. Everyone who acknowledges that these were fake bombs wants to express the truth. Yes the guy is still a nut but they were all fake bombs. Everyone who claims they were real bombs that could have gone off or were full of "energetic material" or "unstable" wants to lie for political purposes. Now watch to see which side people fall on.

OK. But his personal life isn't what is discussed, it is simply about scientific proof vs scams intended get your money and that may harm people. SO if he is right and he proves it he is doing us all a great service regardless of what his personal life is.

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